37-year-old mother, Bowk Lung (pictured above), moved to Robert Camp for displaced people in Bhamo Township in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State five years ago after renewed fighting near her home village. In addition to her own two children, she took responsibility for her nephews whose parents...

The sheer scale of humanitarian suffering over-stretched OCHA as well as responders across the humanitarian community.
While working in five level-three emergencies in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen as well as in two sudden onset natural disasters in Nepal and...

The road to Hakha, in remote Chin State in western Myanmar, is not an easy one to travel at the best of times. Even without landslides and rains, it takes between seven and eight hours to drive. Now it often takes longer as sections are still blocked by mud and stones following landslides caused by the...

“I visit the clinic all the time!” said Ja Seng,* a 59-year-old woman who has spent the last three years living in a camp for displaced people in Myanmar. “At my age, there is always something that hurts,” she adds, laughing contagiously—something that she does easily, despite...